Know Your Rights - Blog Posts

"Everybody will now rise

To the occasion

And know your rights

All three of them

Number one

You have a right

Not to be killed

Unless

It was by a policeman or an aristocrat

Know your rights

Two

You have a right to food, food money

Provided, of course

You agree to be investigated, humiliated, and treated with otherwise

Fashion

Know your rights

All three of them

Know your rights

All three of them

Yeah-hey-hey

Number three

You have a right

To free speech

As long as it is not the truth

And has nothing whatsoever to do with the truth

And furthermore

Has never, in any way, been connected with the truth

These are your rights

Know your rights

Stand up for your rights

Yes, all three of them

It has been suggested in some quarters

That this is not enough

Be quiet, go home

Finish up your drinks

Get off the streets

Break it up now

Don't you have a home to go to?"

-The clash

between this conversation and may later ((casually)) calling matt by his first name i believe that nelson, murdock & page has likely helped her out on multiple occasions in the past when she needed legal counsel. in this essay i will –

You have the right to work in a place that is free from harassment and bullying. Know your rights. Civil Rights Act Title VII for anyone in the US. And for anyone in California, the far superior FEHA. https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964 https://www.dor.ca.gov/Home/FairEmploymentAct

Ok, like I absolutely support the sentiment and the advice is excellent and should be followed. But Columbo is like probably the only cop who exclusively takes on the 1% and elites who look down on him for being working class, and catches them and finds their guilt through their own hubris being their undoing rather than by force. I'm not a fan of cops as much as the next gal, but I feel if all police were like Detective Columbo people wouldn't hate the police as much.

Columbo be like: Can I ask a question?

Everyone: No, fuck off Colombo. I request a lawyer

Know your rights! Also, check your workplace's policy on sharing information about staff, customers, clients, etc.

ICE agents are complaining that the push to make sure people know their rights is making their jobs harder. Keep it up!

Lack of Trust and it is the Police who are to blame

Growing up, I would come home from school and watch ALL the Law and Orders. Still do today. I didn’t hear much about how cops were pigs and corrupt—I heard a few stories but mostly kids and teenagers hating the police because they wanted to be against the government more than anything actually have happened to them

With the murder of Trayvon Martin I was very confused. It’s a kid, in a hoodie. 95% of my life I a kid in a hoodie, so…what’s going on here. Then I moved, spent less time with my parents and under strict supervision and would see and have interactions with police.

I’d see them texting while driving, the wrong way down a road.

I’d see them run through the red light without or without the siren on, or just turn it on so others would get out of the way. Both panic-inducing, confusing, disrupting and disturbing as that is a really, loud noise.

I’ve seen them brush off issues that they felt were beneath them to deal with and experienced them lying to me and my lack of understanding and believing and trusting them being held against me. Obviously I was the one who was lying, because at the time I didn’t know my rights. 

(ACLU, thank you for your efforts to make this and other protections in this and other interactions known: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police#ive-been-pulled-over-by-the-police) 

The distrust of the police is not media brainwashing; it is the complete trust and authority given to police that comes from the all the television shows that at this point are pure propaganda. The police’s values are supposed to be about compassion, respect and professionalism but in my experience their main priority is not their life or even their paycheck but whatever they want when they want it. My experiences are small, but it is the lack of accountability with the most minor of offences that allow larger acts to go unreported—becoming part of the norm.

Police officers choose to serve their communities and they need to prove they are serving all of their community with police officers only being approved if they pass racial bias exams, and police communities are focused on reform with the guidelines set by Campaign Zero and other organizations and reporting systems based on integrity. (https://www.joincampaignzero.org/reports)